Radeon R7 260X vs HD 6850 |
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GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of R7 260X vs 6850 among Desktop GPUs
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Significantly better 3DMark 11 graphics score | 11,820 | vs | 3,640 | Around 3.2x better 3DMark 11 graphics score | |||
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| Significantly higher clock speed | 1,100 MHz | vs | 775 MHz | More than 40% higher clock speed | |||
| Much higher effective memory clock speed | 6,500 MHz | vs | 4,000 MHz | Around 65% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| More memory | 2,048 MB | vs | 1,024 MB | 2x more memory | |||
| Much higher memory clock speed | 1,625 MHz | vs | 1,000 MHz | Around 65% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Higher texture rate | 61.6 GTexel/s | vs | 37.2 GTexel/s | More than 65% higher texture rate | |||
| Slightly better floating-point performance | 1,971.2 GFLOPS | vs | 1,488 GFLOPS | More than 30% better floating-point performance | |||
| Better T-Rex score | 3.67 frames/s | vs | 1.33 frames/s | More than 2.8x better T-Rex score | |||
| Better fire strike factor score | 33.7 | vs | 27 | Around 25% better fire strike factor score | |||
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| Much better 3DMark06 score | 15,040 | vs | 1,903 | Around 8x better 3DMark06 score | |||
| Better 3DMark vantage graphics score | 15,230 | vs | 6,931 | Around 2.2x better 3DMark vantage graphics score | |||
| Higher memory bandwidth | 128 GB/s | vs | 104 GB/s | Around 25% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| More render output processors | 32 | vs | 16 | Twice as many render output processors | |||
| Slightly higher pixel rate | 24.8 GPixel/s | vs | 17.6 GPixel/s | More than 40% higher pixel rate | |||
| Wider memory bus | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit | 2x wider memory bus | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon R7 260X vs HD 6850
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
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